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People flocking to low-tax states could swing future elections
The Hill ^ | January 18, 2018 | Jonathan Williams

Posted on 01/19/2018 6:55:05 AM PST by C19fan

Just a month ago, as friends and families prepared to gather for the holiday season, the men and women at the U.S. Census Bureau were busy releasing their latest annual estimates of population changes across the United States.

With the hustle and bustle of the season, many Americans missed the important new data. The new census estimates detail how states have grown since the last full census in 2010. The estimates provide some fascinating insight on what we can expect from the quickly approaching 2020 Census.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: demographics; migration
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This guy really has his head up his you know what. He seems to not realize, perhaps living in the DC Bubble, that the people moving out of the Blue States don't change their voting patterns.
1 posted on 01/19/2018 6:55:05 AM PST by C19fan
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Just like American citizens who move from blue states to red states import their political views, illegals who migrate from s-holes to America import their s-hole political views.


2 posted on 01/19/2018 6:59:10 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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Just an observation from West Texas but we’ve seen quite an increase in new blood and they’re not what you expect. Most are escapee’s from states where their voice was silenced.


3 posted on 01/19/2018 7:01:28 AM PST by Dusty Road (")
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...people moving out of the Blue States don’t change their voting patterns...

Colorado is a good enough example of that as they turn it a putrid blue.


4 posted on 01/19/2018 7:01:37 AM PST by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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You’re right. The morons who vote democrat get fed up with high taxes and regulations pick up and leave to find a state with lower taxes and less regulations.

These idiots do not make the connection that the taxes and regulations are a direct result of their votes for the fascist democrat party. No clue. In their new state they immediately vote democrat and change the political landscape in the new state. Taxes and regulations go up but they have no inkling that it is because of them.

Like the cockroaches they are, democrats spread their mindless politics and infest the nation.


5 posted on 01/19/2018 7:02:03 AM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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People who move TO the Blue States for the benefits do not vote like people who move AWAY FROM the Blue States for economic opportunities or lower taxes.

Rome wasn't burned in a day.

6 posted on 01/19/2018 7:03:22 AM PST by Sooth2222 (O'Rourke's Circumcision Precept: You can take 10 percent off the top of anything.)
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People from Northeast, Illinois moving down here are not voting Democrat but fed up with taxes, regulations, voting I or R.


7 posted on 01/19/2018 7:04:20 AM PST by rstrahan
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Flockers


8 posted on 01/19/2018 7:04:29 AM PST by Leep (The dims better watch it..Trump is CRAZY!!)
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To: Sooth2222

Exactly. They maintain the same voting patterns that turned their previous states into s*it holes.


9 posted on 01/19/2018 7:08:41 AM PST by ExpatCanuck
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Most are escapee’s from states where their voice was silenced.

It starts that way. But inevitably they are followed by others who are sick of paying the taxes, but who never make the connection to their own voting patterns.


10 posted on 01/19/2018 7:12:51 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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One of the reasons that I moved from NY to Florida. At least here, my vote counts.


11 posted on 01/19/2018 7:12:54 AM PST by TallahasseeConservative
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Jerks find that they no longer like living in the sh*@ holes they’ve created and voted for so they move to great states with family friendly neighborhoods, low crime, reasonable housing, decent schools so they can turn our neighborhoods into the crime infested sh*@ holes they left behind by voting for those same idiotic laws and lawmakers, demanding more gimme dats!


12 posted on 01/19/2018 7:13:28 AM PST by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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We see this in Nashville and Knoxville, both of which are conservative but there are so many “progressives”, “hipsters” and out of town liberal college students, the mayor and city council have been turned hard left—it is disgusting and frustrating to the rest of us who live here.


13 posted on 01/19/2018 7:14:55 AM PST by AtlantaBelle
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We see this in Nashville and Knoxville, both of which are conservative but there are so many “progressives”, “hipsters” and out of town liberal college students, the mayor and city council have been turned hard left—it is disgusting and frustrating to the rest of us who live here.


14 posted on 01/19/2018 7:15:06 AM PST by AtlantaBelle
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We see this in Nashville and Knoxville, both of which are conservative but there are so many “progressives”, “hipsters” and out of town liberal college students, the mayor and city council have been turned hard left—it is disgusting and frustrating to the rest of us who live here.


15 posted on 01/19/2018 7:15:06 AM PST by AtlantaBelle
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Maybe but Ba and Colorado used to be conservative


16 posted on 01/19/2018 7:15:47 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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Case in point: The Villages, near Ocala, Florida. This is a conservative stronghold, and is mostly inhabited by retired New York and New Jersey residents, mostly white, heavily Catholic. These are the sort of voters who caused several Northeastern counties that Obama and Clinton carried to the Republican column.
17 posted on 01/19/2018 7:18:56 AM PST by Wallace T.
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“Most are escapee’s from states where their voice was silenced.”

You’re spot on, my friend. As a current resident of the People’s Republic of Illinois, there’s a reason why Illinois ranks number one in state outbound migration. I’ve had it with the Chicago Dems running the state. Even those I have backed for office eventually stabbed me and fellow conservatives in the back (e.g. former Sen. Mark Kirk and soon-to-be-former Gov. Bruce Rauner).

So yes, my voice has been silenced. I want out of here and declare refugee status to any red state that will take me and my wealth.

And I am guessing a number of those leaving the state are also liberals that have been mugged and now have a different viewpoint. At least, I can hope so.


18 posted on 01/19/2018 7:20:55 AM PST by twoputt
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It’s ridiculous that they can’t connect the high taxes, etc to the Dems. I think a large percent of Democrats vote only on social issues.


19 posted on 01/19/2018 7:30:47 AM PST by EdnaMode
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The question though is whether they will stop voting for Democrats.


20 posted on 01/19/2018 7:33:05 AM PST by Brilliant
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